Hello,

Related with my previous problem trying to build a package with a missing dependency in saucy, I wanted to try another approach :

- build a custom debian package for that missing dependency (alembic) on saucy

- put it on a server/mirror somewhere as custom debs, so the build can find it ( I guess there is a way to do this already ? )

But then I stumbled on another problem :

The ubuntu server don't have any saucy packages any longer, which means I cannot test my package dependencies (sqlalchemy for example)... http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/

so I was wondering, where does the ros build system find the packages for the deprecated ubuntu releases ? Is there a ros ubuntu package mirror somewhere that doesn't delete old releases' packages ?

Is it worth it to build a package for a deprecated release, just to make the build work for indigo ?

Or should the ros build system instead not force me to support unsupported ubuntu releases, somehow ?

Thanks for any input on this.

Please let me know the best way for me to release a package using alembic on indigo.

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AlexV